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How come no girls choose to apply to y combinator?
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#2I'm curious - how many YC companies have girls involved? How many founders have a mixed founding team?
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#3For the same reason guys don't apply to "America's next top model". There just aren't enough female geeks. Which is a pity, since they are mathematically better tuned.
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#4I think 4 out of 39 startups have had a female cofounder. This reflects fairly accurately the proportion of women among the applicants.
I think the reasons there are so few women are that (a) fewer women are fanatical about technical stuff, and you have to be kind of a fanatic to start a startup, and (b) fewer women are willing to have their lives consumed by work, which is what happens to most founders of successful startups.
Y Combinator itself has a female co-founder:
http://foundersatwork.com/jessicalivingston.html
We've talked about the question a fair amount, and I think she would agree with the explanation above.
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Re: How come no girls choose to apply to y combinator?
#5I think 4 out of 39 startups have had a female cofounder. This reflects fairly accurately the proportion of women among the applicants. I think the reasons there are so few women are that (a) fewer women are fanatical about technical stuff, and you have to be kind of a fanatic to start a startup, and (b) fewer women are willing to have their lives consumed by work, which is what happens to most founders of successful…
Would it not help to have a cofounder who is fanatical about the service itself rather than its implementation? Such a cofounder could take on something like a program manager role.
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#6I'm curious - how many YC companies have girls involved? How many founders have a mixed founding team?
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Re: How come no girls choose to apply to y combinator?
#7I'm curious - how many YC companies have girls involved? How many founders have a mixed founding team?
Of the current batch just one.
Re: How come no girls choose to apply to y combinator?
#8For the same reason guys don't apply to "America's next top model". There just aren't enough female geeks. Which is a pity, since they are mathematically better tuned.
None do? I'll bet there are *far* more men that do than women who start and stick with tech startups.
Re: How come no girls choose to apply to y combinator?
#9I think 4 out of 39 startups have had a female cofounder. This reflects fairly accurately the proportion of women among the applicants. I think the reasons there are so few women are that (a) fewer women are fanatical about technical stuff, and you have to be kind of a fanatic to start a startup, and (b) fewer women are willing to have their lives consumed by work, which is what happens to most founders of successful…
Would it not help to have a cofounder who is fanatical about the service itself rather than its implementation? Such a cofounder could take on something like a program manager role.
YouTube's spokewoman upon the acquisition received approx. 5 million dollars. The 3 founders together received more than 750 million dollars.
Your co-founder should be able to provide more in tech side of the start-up because thats what is important in the beggining.
Re: How come no girls choose to apply to y combinator?
#10I'm curious - how many YC companies have girls involved? How many founders have a mixed founding team?
According to Jessica Levingstone, it is 4. And according to Paul, it is 3. The rest of us can take the mean and agree upon 3.5 females.